Takeaways from Scott Satterfield's Press Conference
November 11, 2019 | Football
The Cardinals travel to face NC State on Saturday night.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Louisville will play its final Atlantic Coast Conference road game with a trip to Raleigh, N.C. to face NC State Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The game can be seen on the ACC Network with Dave O'Brien, Tim Hasselbeck, and Katie George calling the action.
UofL head coach Scott Satterfield has the Cardinals at 5-4 in his first season, while Dave Doeren's team has lost three games in a row to fall to 4-5 overall and 1-4 in the ACC.
Louisville and NC State are meeting for the 10th time on Saturday, with the Cardinals owning a 6-3 series advantage. The Wolfpack have won the last two meetings, including a 39-25 victory in Raleigh in 2017.
Despite dropping their last game in Raleigh in 2017, the Cardinals won the two previous meetings in 2015 and 2007.
Satterfield met with the media on Monday, and below are some of the takeaways from his weekly press conference.
The Cardinals suffered a 25-point loss to the Hurricanes last Saturday, losing for only the second time in the last five games. Satterfield stated that he expects he team to continue to prepare like they have done all season.
"As far as the organization is the same, but obviously you have some different conversations after a game like that. It is all of us in the building. The strength staff in the weight room to the training room, to all of our meeting rooms. So, things are said differently. We are going to try to get better and we are going to look at what we did bad and correct it. Sometimes when you come in on Sunday, players are going to have to have thick skin. The got to be able to take coaching and know that what we are trying to do is make them a better team and better individual players. The structure is going to be the same, but when you come back obviously the corrections, the mental part is going to be a little bit different."
The Cardinals are looking to stop a two-game losing streak to the Wolfpack, and Satterfield knows his team must be prepared to face another solid defensive test.
"Well they always play good defense. I think obviously he is a defensive minded coach and they're structurally sound on defense. The kids play hard on that side of the ball. You know you're going to get that they want to be a physical football team. They want to be that blue collar tough minded football team. I think that's, that's what they want to be. Again, you're playing so many young guys with so many injuries they put themselves in the last couple of weeks in bad spots with turnovers you know, against Clemson they're backed up as a lot of short fields early night game next thing you know it's out of control you know, so that those things can happen obviously. I think we know we're going to get from those guys you know, you're going to get a hard blue collar team is going to play hard and coach Well, you know what, we got to go into game of specter, they're going to play their best game. That's how you have to go into it if you're playing against those guys."
Running back Javian Hawkins is only 22 yards from becoming the first running back to reach the 1,000-yard plateau since Bilal Powell rans for 1,405 yards in 2010. Hawkins has 978 yards this season, the second most by a freshman in the nation.
"Yeah, I think what we want to do we want to run the football. We all know that and that's a mindset that we have offensively. Hawkins runs hard. We continue to get him the ball and he makes plays for us. So then Hassan Hall comes in and had another kind of nice touchdown run on for that fourth down, right. So we feel like really both of those backs can give us a lot in the running game. And Hawkins again, he's not a big guy, but he runs like he's a big guy, but he's also when he takes it pass the line of scrimmage, he can take a big runs after that. So, so yeah, we're excited about that too. Tutu Atwell had another big game. He's having an All-Conference type season so far, big play a guy for us offensively and seems like every week, you know, he's taken up taking one to the house. So, I mean, we have some guys that we think that can, you know, can change the game with offensively and we got to continue to give him the ball."
Wide receiver Keion Wakefield responded to his first start by catching a career high three passes for 40 yards in the loss to Miami.
"We hope so. He has practiced well. He's played quite a bit but just hasn't really been targeted, as much. Tutu goes out, he (Keion Wakefield) goes in and makes some plays for us, makes the most of his opportunity. Makes some big plays for us. He isn't as fast as Tutu but can make some plays for us, hopefully move the chains, and he will continue to get better and better and in a game like that he got the chance to show what he can do and hopefully gave him some confidence."
UofL head coach Scott Satterfield has the Cardinals at 5-4 in his first season, while Dave Doeren's team has lost three games in a row to fall to 4-5 overall and 1-4 in the ACC.
Louisville and NC State are meeting for the 10th time on Saturday, with the Cardinals owning a 6-3 series advantage. The Wolfpack have won the last two meetings, including a 39-25 victory in Raleigh in 2017.
Despite dropping their last game in Raleigh in 2017, the Cardinals won the two previous meetings in 2015 and 2007.
Satterfield met with the media on Monday, and below are some of the takeaways from his weekly press conference.
The Cardinals suffered a 25-point loss to the Hurricanes last Saturday, losing for only the second time in the last five games. Satterfield stated that he expects he team to continue to prepare like they have done all season.
"As far as the organization is the same, but obviously you have some different conversations after a game like that. It is all of us in the building. The strength staff in the weight room to the training room, to all of our meeting rooms. So, things are said differently. We are going to try to get better and we are going to look at what we did bad and correct it. Sometimes when you come in on Sunday, players are going to have to have thick skin. The got to be able to take coaching and know that what we are trying to do is make them a better team and better individual players. The structure is going to be the same, but when you come back obviously the corrections, the mental part is going to be a little bit different."
The Cardinals are looking to stop a two-game losing streak to the Wolfpack, and Satterfield knows his team must be prepared to face another solid defensive test.
"Well they always play good defense. I think obviously he is a defensive minded coach and they're structurally sound on defense. The kids play hard on that side of the ball. You know you're going to get that they want to be a physical football team. They want to be that blue collar tough minded football team. I think that's, that's what they want to be. Again, you're playing so many young guys with so many injuries they put themselves in the last couple of weeks in bad spots with turnovers you know, against Clemson they're backed up as a lot of short fields early night game next thing you know it's out of control you know, so that those things can happen obviously. I think we know we're going to get from those guys you know, you're going to get a hard blue collar team is going to play hard and coach Well, you know what, we got to go into game of specter, they're going to play their best game. That's how you have to go into it if you're playing against those guys."
Running back Javian Hawkins is only 22 yards from becoming the first running back to reach the 1,000-yard plateau since Bilal Powell rans for 1,405 yards in 2010. Hawkins has 978 yards this season, the second most by a freshman in the nation.
"Yeah, I think what we want to do we want to run the football. We all know that and that's a mindset that we have offensively. Hawkins runs hard. We continue to get him the ball and he makes plays for us. So then Hassan Hall comes in and had another kind of nice touchdown run on for that fourth down, right. So we feel like really both of those backs can give us a lot in the running game. And Hawkins again, he's not a big guy, but he runs like he's a big guy, but he's also when he takes it pass the line of scrimmage, he can take a big runs after that. So, so yeah, we're excited about that too. Tutu Atwell had another big game. He's having an All-Conference type season so far, big play a guy for us offensively and seems like every week, you know, he's taken up taking one to the house. So, I mean, we have some guys that we think that can, you know, can change the game with offensively and we got to continue to give him the ball."
Wide receiver Keion Wakefield responded to his first start by catching a career high three passes for 40 yards in the loss to Miami.
"We hope so. He has practiced well. He's played quite a bit but just hasn't really been targeted, as much. Tutu goes out, he (Keion Wakefield) goes in and makes some plays for us, makes the most of his opportunity. Makes some big plays for us. He isn't as fast as Tutu but can make some plays for us, hopefully move the chains, and he will continue to get better and better and in a game like that he got the chance to show what he can do and hopefully gave him some confidence."
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